Example sentences of "i think [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did I think of his idea of linking the poems with short passages elaborating and co-ordinating the motifs of the poem before and the one to follow ? |
| 2 | And as I thought about their meaning , the tears slowed down until they stopped . |
| 3 | As I left ( clutching a crisp lettuce and firm , shining tomatoes ) , I thought about his previous job . |
| 4 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 5 | And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was . |
| 6 | I thought about his notion that ‘ alien ’ was just another way of saying ‘ devil ’ , or that Old Mother Walsh and her snake were n't , actually , any more real , although just as powerful , as Argol and the things from Tellenor . |
| 7 | I was hard put to know what I thought about our guests — I mean since , as well as then . |
| 8 | When the excitement had died down I thought about my family , of all their help and sacrifices over the years and of the hardships they had undergone to bring us all up . |
| 9 | And on this , one of the very best days of my life , I thought about my grandmother and how she had loved and cared for me when I was very young in Jamaica . |
| 10 | But I thought about my experience at Wilhelmshaven , and the fascination of the task there , despite the appalling environment . |
| 11 | I thought about my young wife in the hotel in the village . |
| 12 | I thought about my dear wife , and for a short time I felt better . |
| 13 | I thought of its maker ; Lawrence the animal ; Lawrence the master craftsman ; such an amalgam , so potent ; take away the magic of hand and eye — no replica of the key ; take away the brute — no key to replicate , for only a brute could have done to Holy Harding what Lawrence did to Holy Harding — Holy Harding , school monitor , altar boy , server in the Cathedral of ix … |
| 14 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 15 | I thought of her walking along the pavement and crossing that street in the rain at the back of the British Museum and then the car . |
| 16 | ‘ If I told you what I thought of your pluck … ’ |
| 17 | On the way home , I thought of our love and how , lately , |
| 18 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 19 | Lying on the bed , which was very old-fashioned but deliciously comfortable , I thought of my home , my Queen and my country . |
| 20 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 21 | I thought of my mother , she would probably be baking scones , her apron dusted with flour . |
| 22 | It came to me that my mother was proud of her friendship with this high-spirited outcast , and I felt resentment as I thought of my own upbringing , of the fuss when my school reports were n't all that my mother would have wished , of the scene when once I had sworn . |
| 23 | After such a long day I thought of my wife and son with ‘ What have I done ? ’ running through my head as I dropped off to sleep . |
| 24 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 25 | Well I thought of my wellies and I thought , I was just worried about falling of the pebbles , mind you , safe as these . |
| 26 | I thought of his words , ‘ One day you will stop running and come running to Him ’ . |
| 27 | I did not want Jean-Claude to think I thought of his work only in terms of the money it might earn . |
| 28 | I thought of his sweetness in sitting beside me all night , and of the shadows on his face in the morning , and how I had gone off without telling him I loved him . |
| 29 | He said , Well I thought to me self well the bloke that 's co just walk in the shop and sell five hundred bundles of fire wood , he could sell insurance . |
| 30 | I thought in your case it would be more the natural . |